25th May, 2050
”Why Areca nuts in our farms aren’t growing ?” I asked.
”I don’t know..” My big brother, Mahesh sighed. I am Mira , a 9 year old girl from the farming background. But now, me and my 3 friends were wondering why there no enough crops in their farms. From last year. the whole area didn’t had enough crops to feed on. What happened?
”Let’s find out! Let’s go and ask someone” Ramu suggested. He seemed pretty excited.
”What are you going ask anyway?” Chaitra asked, crossing her arms.
”Let us see what they say” Mahesh said. Chaitra nodded. We all went to find the best person to answer – our grandmother. After searching for a while, we finally found her! You know where she is? Near the Mango tree! But this year, we don’t have any mangoes. There are three other people with her. They looked like they were some officers. What she’s doing there anyway?
”Grandma?” Chaitra called. Grandma turned at us. The officer-looking people turned too. What they are doing here?
”What are you doing here Grandma?” Ramu wondered. Grandma smiled.
” What are you doing here?”
”We are enquiring about an important topic”
”Why we aren’t getting enough crops these days?” I asked her. What is happening here? I had no idea!
”That’s what I am doing here!” She said in her shaky voice. She continued
”Nearly 5 years ago, our world lost 90% the honeybees. We already destroyed our atmosphere, we don’t have clean water, at least we had bees left to pollinate our crops…but we lost them too”
”Why do they went extinct?” I asked.
” Because of us. We destroyed them – we sprayed too much pesticides to the crops, we destroyed the habitats, we converted too much wildlands to agriculture, we warmed our planet so much that bees were unable to live.”
”But.. but what can we do now?”
”All we can do is giving shelter to the other 10% bees we have left. That’s why these scientists are here. They are going to restore agriculture again ”
”Whoa! But until the bees population rises, what do we have to do?” Mahesh asked. Grandma continues…
”That’s a tough job. We all have to wait. We can pollinate some plants. But we aren’t bees, you see? We cannot do all things. We always need other organisms to help. And that’s where we made mistake, we thought we were superiors. But we aren’t. Everything needs everything in earth. That’s how it is!”
Hey Guys, this is one of the story I wrote long back ago(like, two years before maybe). I started this story for my little brother , but it turned out a little higher level for him. And I hope you liked it.
Wow Vanya!!! This story is so simple and succinct yet it is so deep... I commend your efforts to stop harming the Earth :)
ReplyDeleteBees are very salient and I hope we treasure their value.
Thanks Maith!
DeleteThis was so fun to read, Vanya! Great post and I loved the story <3
ReplyDeleteThanks Maya!
DeleteThis was great to read! I genuinely enjoyed it :)
ReplyDeleteThanks :)
DeleteThis is a really interesting piece because although it's a little simple. It has a very strong point and factually shares it in an interesting manner! Great post Vanya!
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